TY - JOUR AV - public EP - 12 A1 - Van Belleghem, SM A1 - Rastas, P A1 - Papanicolaou, A A1 - Martin, SH A1 - Arias, CF A1 - Supple, MA A1 - Hanly, JJ A1 - Mallet, J A1 - Lewis, JJ A1 - Hines, HM A1 - Ruiz, M A1 - Salazar, C A1 - Linares, M A1 - Moreira, GRP A1 - Jiggins, CD A1 - Counterman, BA A1 - Owen McMillan, W A1 - Papa, R N2 - Identifying the genomic changes that control morphological variation and understanding how they generate diversity is a major goal of evolutionary biology. In Heliconius butterflies, a small number of genes control the development of diverse wing colour patterns. Here, we used full-genome sequencing of individuals across the Heliconius erato radiation and closely related species to characterize genomic variation associated with wing pattern diversity. We show that variation around colour pattern genes is highly modular, with narrow genomic intervals associated with specific differences in colour and pattern. This modular architecture explains the diversity of colour patterns and provides a flexible mechanism for rapid morphological diversification. KW - Comparative genomics KW - Evolutionary genetics KW - Mimicry PB - NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP JF - Nature Ecology & Evolution VL - 1 TI - Complex modular architecture around a simple toolkit of wing pattern genes N1 - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions. ID - discovery10086335 UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-016-0052 Y1 - 2017/01/30/ ER -